GOProud, the ridiculous group of conservative homosexuals who hate themselves, has signed Ann Coulter to headline its Homocon 2010 event. Lord.
Fresh off breaking the labor and LGBT boycott of Doug Manchester’s hotels, GOProud announces its “first annual Homocon – a party to celebrate gay conservatives,” will be fronted by none other than America’s foremost hate leader and instigator. (Adds chairman Chris Barron: “I can promise you, Homocon 2010 will be a hell of a lot more fun than chaining yourself to the White House fence.”)
But just in case you thought Coulter throwing around the F-word meant she’s anti-gay, think again: “I do want to point out one thing that has been driving me crazy with the media — how they keep describing Mitt Romney’s position as being pro-gays, and that’s going to upset the right wingers. Well, you know, screw you! I’m not anti-gay. We’re against gay marriage. I don’t want gays to be discriminated against. … I don’t know why all gays aren’t Republican. I think we have the pro-gay positions, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts. Gays make a lot of money and they’re victims of crime. No, they are! They should be with us.”
Update: Says executive director Jimmy LaSalvia about GOProud’s choice of company: “We are not concerned about what the PC crowd has to say. This is about having fun. I don’t agree with everything she has said in her lifetime, just like she doesn’t agree with everything I’ve ever said….but we can still party together, right?”
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PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Calling Mann Crunter the “right wing Judy Garland”?????……They all deserve to have houses dropped upon them
christopher di spirito
The doll boyz at GOProud are utter morons. They deserve Annthrax Coulter.
Cam
She doesn’t want gays to be discriminated against but she is against gay marriage.
It’s like somebody saying to her “Hey, I don’t want women to be discriminated against…I just don’t want you owning property.”
David Ehrenstein
I don’t want her to own a vagina.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
@David Ehrenstein: He doesn’t :-p
hand
very cool, a lot of people listen to ann coulter and may be positively affected by this. meshes rather nicely with the recent NYT story about how the GOP doesn’t want to campaign on the prop 8 vote.
obviously queerty is going to start this article off with nonsensical ad-hominems, and commentators will make STATEMENTS OF OUTRAGE like there’s no tomorrow, but who really cares about that nonsense?
but ew homocon is such a bad name
Rob
I just got a mental image of Coulter with short hair, on a stage at the RNC, trying to sing Over the Rainbow. God, it was frightening.
whatever
More macho? Just because they want to bomb brown people from a plane some straight guy is flying does not make them macho–just chickenhawk cowards like all conservatives.
Mr. Enemabag Jones
“I can promise you, Homocon 2010 will be a hell of a lot more fun than chaining yourself to the White House fence.”
How would they know? None of them have ever served in the military.
“I can promise you, Homocon 2010 will be a hell of a lot more fun than trolling public bathrooms.”
There, fixed it.
Ogre Magi
I feel like one of those characters in the old Looney Toons Cartoons that says “Well, now I’ve seen every thing” Then shoots themselves
tjr101
Annie needs to explain that Adams apple!
Jeff K.
Ann Coulter is an insult to trans-women everywhere.
Mike
She’s transgendered. Why wouldn’t she say yes?
Kevin, New Jersey
@Cam: When Coulter says, “We’re against gay marriage. I don’t want gays to be discriminated against,” it sounds like a ridiculous non sequitur, I know. 🙂
But, if you take as an axiomatic premise that the definition of marriage necessarily requires one man and one or more women (though I know obscure exceptions to this have existed), then what we Queers are seeking is something that – logically – is not marriage.
Coulter’s line of reasoning is deliberately naïve, and seeks to nominalistically justify, vis-a-vis this word “marriage” and its logical implications, Queers’ lack of equal rights to economic and social benefits under the law.
Let’s hear it for Due Process and Equal Protection! 😀
randy
Sheesh. Okay, I tried to find *something* earlier to defend this group, but this is just ridiculous. It reinforces my perception of them as just a bunch of frat boys who want to say F U to the liberal establishment.
I can understand getting celebrities for your organization, but Ann Coulter? What has she done for gays — ever? Except insinuate that some Dem politicians are fags, and not in a good way.
Cam
@hand: said..
very cool, a lot of people listen to ann coulter and may be positively affected by this. meshes rather nicely with the recent NYT story about how the GOP doesn’t want to campaign on the prop 8 vote.
obviously queerty is going to start this article off with nonsensical ad-hominems, and commentators will make STATEMENTS OF OUTRAGE like there’s no tomorrow, but who really cares about that nonsense?
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I just love how Queerty is the one making ad-hominems according to you, when Coulter just stated that she does not think we should have full civil rights. If somebody again, were to say to her “I think women should not be discriminated against, I just don’t think you should be able to vote or to own property” would you then attack the women for answering that comment back with one of their own?
You reminded me of the straight people trying to defend Carrie Prejean’s statement because she started it with “No offence”. Just because somebody says something in a calm voice and doesn’t swear doesn’t make the sentiment any different than it would be from a foaming at the mouth bigot. Just what is she going to convince the GOP of?
Kurt
“GOProud, the ridiculous group of conservative homosexuals who hate themselves…”
That is a false and unfair statement.
Consider Coutler’s remark: “Gays make a lot of money and…”
At least the Homocon gays do. They don’t hate themselves. They love themselves. Their wealth and power protects them from any down side to lgbt discrimination a lot more than laws and policies will.
Now for those of us not of the wealthy elite, we are dependent on just laws for our protection. But these rich boys understand, protect their riches and to hell with everyone else.
Devon
Gay Republicans selling out and rubbing shoulders with vile, bigoted sacks of flesh who don’t think gays deserve to be treated like human beings?
Wow what a shocking and completely unexpected turn of events.
Zach
So what’s the three-peat for GoProud to piss off normal gay people? Setting fire to HIV clinics while running over homeless youths?
Mr. Enemabag Jones
I hope someone will infiltrate this party and take lots of pics. I bet you won’t see that many white men outside of a Klan cross burning. I guess that’s why GOProud eschews the rainbow flag–thier rainbow only has one colour.
DR
@Zach: that’s really just vile, Zach. If you don’t agree with their politics, that’s one thing, but that was lower than necessary.
Zach
@DR:
What planet are you on, exactly? They support a political party that wants to imprison homosexuals. They make no efforts at advancing equality, and they attack anyone who actually does. And now they’re inviting a woman who has openly advocated genocide against Arabs and who has professed eternal hatred towards gays as well. They’re loathsome human beings who deserve all the worst to happen to them.
Fitz
Every time a gay republican gets raped with a buck knife, an angel smiles.
DR
@Zach:
So the best you and everyone else can come up with are ad hominem attacks with no basis in fact. This attitude of “if you can’t beat them, or don’t agree with them, mock them in near libelous and really idiotic manners” is getting tedious.
labman57
In related stories, Sarah Palin will deliver the keynote address at this year’s Sierra Club symposium, Dick Cheney will chair the annual Amnesty International fundraiser, and Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh will co-host a television special dealing with “Bigotry against ethnic minorities in today’s society” on the BET cable network.
wompman
GoProd (yes, that is intentional) and Annie C? This entire escapade is nothing more than attention whores creating bad performance art.
hand
@Cam:
“I just love how Queerty is the one making ad-hominems according to you, when Coulter just stated that she does not think we should have full civil rights. If somebody again, were to say to her “I think women should not be discriminated against, I just don’t think you should be able to vote or to own property” would you then attack the women for answering that comment back with one of their own?
You reminded me of the straight people trying to defend Carrie Prejean’s statement because she started it with “No offence”. Just because somebody says something in a calm voice and doesn’t swear doesn’t make the sentiment any different than it would be from a foaming at the mouth bigot. Just what is she going to convince the GOP of?”
oh yes? you reminded me of the people trying to defend Obama, who’s also stated that he does not think we should have full civil rights. somehow i doubt we’d see OH SUCH OUTRAGE if Obama attended a HRC conference.
she’s going to convince the GOP that it’s cool to headline at a gay rights conference. regardless of your opinion of GOProud’s history, to many conservatives it’s another gay rights group (see: CPAC fallout).
it requires neither imagination nor intelligence to see that Ann Coulter headlining a gay rights event is a step towards progress.
Rikard
cursed by diversity in the gay community. the shame is nearly unbearable.
lincoln
Wow…
That poster..I’m not sure I’ll be able to wash the image out of my brain for days…
Zach
@DR:
Again, what planet are you on? Various state branches of the Republican Party as well as many in the upper establishment have openly called for the criminalization of homosexuality. Coulter has made so many negative statements about gays that saying that she professes eternal hatred for us is underselling things a bit. And she’s repreatedly said that the United States should bomb the Middle East and slaughter and convert Muslim Arabs.
Coulter wants to go all David Irving on me, she’s welcome to it. It will be nice to get hear every evil (and I don’t use that word lightly) thing she ever said or wrote in court.
Seriously, George Bush has been out of office for what, twenty months? Why don’t you try living in the reality-based community?
Zach
@DR:
Frankly, I’m not sure why I’m arguing with you. You have no respect for facts, evidence, or logic. I would have more luck trying to beat sense into drywall.
hand
i wonder if zach can point to 10 current republican members of congress who call for the criminalization of homosexuality.
Republican
Some of the comments above about gay republicans are certainly way over the top. (Especially the comment about being raped with a buck knife.)
However, I agree that GOProud was wrong to select Ann Coulter. Besides the fact that her work is not that good, there is the very important issue of gay rights. Even though there may not be a whole lot of prominent conservative writers out there who are in favor of total gay equality, there are some. The right thing to do in situations like this is to pick one of them even if they won’t draw as much attention to your convention. (And I suspect that drawing attention was part of the reason for picking Coulter.)
Oh, and if they wanted a comedian, they should have gone with Joan Rivers.
scott ny'er
WOW! Just WOW on picking Ann.
If they want to party while Ann is ready to stab them when their backs are turned, let ’em. I don’t think that’s too intelligent but it’s their lives.
DR
@Zach:
You haven’t been stating facts, you (and others) have been making disgusting comments, there’s a difference. Where in the hell do you get off making some of the comments you’ve made, what makes you so damned morally superior? In typical far leftie fashion, you’re all for free speech until someone actually speaks!
When you actually state facts or logic instead of suggesting that GOProud will run over homeless kids while burning down HIV clinics, we can talk. If all you plan to do is mock and attack, you got nothing of worth to say.
Lanjier
@Republican
You have it wrong. GOProud is slamming the more liberal gay community, being homophobic douchebags. Fuck them and fuck you. That party tried to write us out of the Constitution. Let the comments fly.
Lanjier
We should be engaging civil discourse, but Ann of Green Gables can fly around the country calling everyone fags. Then GOProud can proudly say, well, we love that she is not PC. Well, we can be not politically correct too! See that shit works both ways. If you start something, you have to ready to to finish it, right?
GOProud are pussies. They can celebrate Lady Ann of Fags, but when we turn on them they want sympathy. Don’t call us names, we are just persecuted for our conservative thought! Boo fucking hoo.
josh
If you watched the hate crime debates on C-SPAN then you would know that almost all the Republican senators and representatives (except Snow, Collins, Cao and maybe a couple others) equated gays with pedophiles.
The overwhelming majority did that.
It made me sick to my stomach.
How any gay can be a Republican is beyond my present understanding.
Adam
Ugh…self-hating gays.
jason
Ann Coulter is generally obnoxious but she does have a good knack for derailing liberals and their misconceived views. One of the things that liberals do is manipulate us. They think they own us. They dangle carrots before us but deliver very little in the way of true progress.
Ann is simply saying that the yellow brick road is for everybody and that the rainbow beckons.
jason
Ann Coulter also makes the valid point that it was Bill Clinton who signed DADT into law.
Lanjier
@Jason
I am very tough on Democrats and I don’t give them a pass. But that does not equate with celebrating a radical like Morticia Adams the Younger. Her jokes –this one is a fag and that one is a fag — are not directed at us. Like GOPround, it is just liberal hatred. Seriously unfunny — seriously.
Republican
@Lanjier:
Why the anger at me? I was criticizing GOProud for Pete’s sake.
And if you’re familiar with my comments here, I’m hardly a defender of the current republican party. I frequently criticize it in fact. And yes, I support the few pro-gay republicans that are out there, but I don’t send money to or vote for those who are anti-gay. Don’t lump me in with GOProud.
Sug Night
GOPROUD….nothing proud about them, they are self-loathing idiots. Hope they enjoy their horseshow. Hope they have a bucket of oats in her dressing room, the old nag is likely to be even bitchier when hungry!
Michael
I’ve been to a bunch of conventions, and am pretty sure I’ve never attended any of the speaker sessions.
GOProud Tea Party Homocon
Stop being left-wing Obamabot bigots and accept Gay Conservatives. We were born that way. Ann Coulter is more accepting that most of you here. We are here, we are GOP queer, you better get used to us!
Jallon
Why does everyone get their panties in a bunch over Coulter? I detest the things she says, but honestly, I doubt she’s racist, homophobic or anything like that.
She’s just a shameless opportunist who, like Glen Beck, will say anything offensive or inflammatory just to get attention, spark controversy and keep people talking about her. She has no scruples and doesn’t care if she hurts people with what she says – but she probably doesn’t believe even half of her own right-wing nutcase rantings.
Zach
@DR:
Saying I’m speaking without evidence doesn’t really work when all someone has to do is google ‘Coulter’ and ‘Muslims’ or ‘the Middle East’ to find out what she wants to do to the brown people. Likewise, type in ‘criminalize’ and ‘gay’ or ‘homosexual’ and you’ll find all the great efforts by Republicans to criminalize homosexuality here and keep it at its current level of oppression abroad.
What’s more glaring is that I never attacked gay conservatives. I dislike conservative philosophy and believe it’s genuinely detrimental to society, but I can’t in good conscience go after someone simply because they’re a gay conservative.
What I go after are gay Republicans, and particularly ones who aren’t interested in advancing equality. GoProud doesn’t win any new hearts and minds, they just try to retain their spot in a national hate group. And I suspect it’s become increasingly difficult for them, as the Republican Party becomes even more extremist. GoProud has to work hard to distinguish themselves from those lefty homosexuals, so all they (and you) do is attack other gays and liberals.
And after all of that, even if GoProud was welcomed with open arms into the gay community, what would they do? Give a collective finger to it. This is an organization dedicated to showing how they’re better than everyone else. They decry health and social programs and human compassion as weak and wasteful. In their perfect world, the government would tell HIV sufferers to FOAD, because the government has no business extending a helping hand to anyone, that’s the domain of private organizations (which they would never give a cent to anyways).
Being a part of a community entails sacrifice and responsibility to others in the that community. Why would the gay community admit an organization or group that wanted respect but did nothing to earn it?
GOProud Tea Party Homocon
@Zach: A little education for you.
I am not part of your left-wing shill community.
I owe you no “sacrifice and responsibility”, keep your communistic ideas to yourself and your fellow left wingnuts.
Republicans and conservatives believe in individual rights and personal responsibility, not becoming slaves to collectivists like you.
You have no power to “admit” or “not admit” a group like GOProud. Why should we even care about what partisan bigots like you think?
LGBT issues, just like any civil rights issues are not a partisan matter.
DemonRats take you for granted. They think you have nowhere else to go, so they keep throwing you under the bus.
Republicans are slowly but surely learning to accept LGBT. You’ll get equal rights only when GOP gets comfortable.
If you want to make a positive difference, join GOProud. If you just like to whine vote for DemonRats.
Sug Night
Sick. Twisted. Sad.
Lance Rockland
@GOProud Tea Party Homocon: Sounds like you’re doing enough whining for all of us.
Enjoy being in the minority party for the next 100 years. BWAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOProud Tea Party Homocon
@Lance Rockland: Too bigoted to accept us? I want a Federal law that would protect Republicans from being discriminated against by LGBT community! BWAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OrchidIslander
@GOProud Tea Party Homocon:
“You’ll get equal rights only when GOP gets comfortable.”
What an arrogant and bull**it statement! We’ll get equal rights only when the GOP gets comfortable? Who the f**k is the GOP, and the f**k are you? You lapdog!!
You assume and concede far too much power and authority to the right-wing-in-charge GOP. Get this, and get it good because the GOP holds no power or sway over civil rights guaranteed to all Americans. The recent Prop 8 ruling is a prime example of that. We don’t need, or seek, the GOP’s approval. And, by default, yours either!.
“”Republicans are slowly but surely learning to accept LGBT.”
Yeah, and the sun is slowly but surely burning itself out. I’ll take bets on which happens first.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
Frederick Douglass
rudy
No. 33 · Republican,
They think it’s funny that Dan Choi stood up for all the gays in the military and lost his job?
They are absolute scum.
The only thing wrong with that prod remark is that they’re so sick they might enjoy it.
DR
@Zach:
If you had posted that before the HIV clinic and homeless kids comment, I might take you seriously. I rarely take guys seriously who rant and rave, get called out, and then suddenly write a monologue on why they don’t hate *all* gay conservatives, just those who belong to a specific group. Sounds like something Maggie Gallagher would say.
jason
At least Ann concedes our existence. In contrast, mainstream Hollywood doesn’t. Look at all the wide release movies that have come out this summer. Not one – repeat, not one – has included gay or bisexual men as part of the story line. You Democrats can whine all you like about Ann but the truth is that Hollywood – that great bastion of liberalism – hates us much more.
jason
Also, look at how much the music industry hates gay and bisexual men. Can someone tell me of one openly gay or bisexual man who is signed to a record contract? Sure, Adam Lambert is one. But he came up through American Idol and couldn’t be ignored. Out gay or bisexual men are basically banned by liberals in the music industry.
The simple truth is the music industry hates gay or bisexual men. Ann, at least, partly embraces us. Let’s give her a chance.
In Response
@ Jason. The creatives in the music industry might include liberals (including gay men and women), but the suits who are in charge are often conservative businessmen looking at a products to market. They look at statistics. The raw statistics will tell you that an openly gay performer is a harder sell and therefore less likely to make money. It’s corporate music. You want out, download some indie. May I recommend the hottie Eric Himan?
libhomo
GOPShame is one of the most pathetic organizations on this Earth.
AL
In recent years, more Republicans are coming out in favor of gay rights. They are not in majority of Republicans yet, but it should be viewed as a positive sign of growing acceptance of gays in conservative circles. However, the mainstream liberal gay community fears that acceptance of gays among Republicans is a threat to their establishment. It’s disgusting that both liberals and conservative use gay rights as a political tool. It’s disgusting that one’s political agenda is more important than civil rights. Sad.
GOProud Tea Party Homocon
@AL: Liberals exploiting gay community for power and profit are disgusting and ought to be ashamed of themselves. Don’t be sheep, peoople, stop following these frauds!
rudy
No. 57 ·
Jason, you need to get cable.
But while we’re waiting for a decent distributor to pick up Howl and I Love You, Phillip Morris, check out The Kids Are All Right.
It’s wonderful.
Surfy
#49: what’s that? Two gays so stupid they can’t manage a 69?
Queer Supremacist
@GOProud Tea Party Homocon: I stopped following those frauds years ago. And I’m not about to follow another set of frauds.
You do know she has the same position on gay marriage as Obama. Why would you hire someone who practices the same doublespeak as Obama to speak at your little Mickey Mouse affair?
GOProud Tea Party Homocon
@Queer Supremacist: Because I want taxes reduced and government downsized
Queer Supremacist
@GOProud Tea Party Homocon:
I do, too, but I’m not going to vote for a bigot who will take my money “for the common good” any more than I will vote for a statist who claims he’s teh gheyz’ BFF.
As for that poster, if Ann Coulter is “the right wing Judy Garland”, maybe that’s why she accepted the event. She’s looking for a husband!
GOProud Tea Party Homocon
@Queer Supremacist: All things being equal, I’ll vote for smaller government
damon459
The GOP wants smaller government, Since when? Please inform me of any Republicans who were in any federal office and managed to shrink the government. GW may have lowered taxes but he didn’t cut spending to match those tax cuts. I fail to see how lowering taxes without lowering spending will keep us out of debt I guess it’s GOP magic lol
David
Someone wrote, “i wonder if zach can point to 10 current republican members of congress who call for the criminalization of homosexuality.”
Most of ’em support the current military policy on sodomy which will get ya time in jail, both for heterosexuals and gays. But I don’t know that they’ve ever punished a hetero for sodomy. I think they may still have some guys serving time in military jails for being caught having sex in public.
But usually the politicians who support criminalizaton of homosexuality are on the state level. One needs not look any further than our own Texas to find an overabundance of nit-minded Republican support for that.
GOProud Tea Party Homocon
@damon459: Sounds like you should support Tea Parties too! GOP has done a bad job keeping the promise of smaller government, but that’s why we have Tea Parties to put pressure on them! Join the fight to return government back to the people!
jason
GOProud Tea Party Homocon,
You are so right.
I find it amazing that gay and bisexual men continue to support the music industry and the movie industry, for instance. Both these industries are extremely homophobic towards gay and bisexual men.
Just look at the lack of inclusion that these industries demonstrate towards gay and bisexual men. I can’t think of one openly gay or bisexual American man who has had a number 1 hit song, for instance. Out of the thousands of number 1 hit songs, not one has been sung by an openly gay or bisexual American man.
Worse still, liberals in the entertainment industry love to glamorize lesbians and bisexual women. Liberals are total hypocrites when it comes to human sexuality, and will only support that which causes masturbation in grubby straight guys.
The bisexual double standard, along with lack of inclusion of gay and bisexual men in music and movies, are two main reason why I’ve turned against liberalism. I hope Ann mentions how homophobic these industries are at her talk at Homocon. You go, girl.